While walking nearby the Lichtenberg S-Bahn station today we wondered at the abundance and variety of wild blooms and came home with a notebook full of pressed plant specimens. We’ve been seeing this common daisy blanketing green spaces (both planned and rogue) throughout the borough.
A Lichtenberg Herbarium
22 May 2014 by sarasea
Posted in Berlin plants | Tagged art, Berlin, book, flower, herbarium, lichtenberg, project, weeds | 4 Comments
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Wow. That daisy is so colorful. Is that how daisies look when pressed? I thought they would get all brown.
Hi Matt, the daisy is still in the process of drying. We’ll see how the color changes as it dries completely.
I have saved plants from Germany in 1939. I like to look at them and wonder what things must have been like back then.
Wow, please tell us more! How were the plants from 1939 saved? Are they also pressed and dried? How did you get them? 1939 was a hard time for ordinary Germans. I met someone who told me that by the later years of WWII, her mother’s family would go gather weeds in Berlin to eat, because there was hardly any food left.